Novels

A House is Built

This novel, written by two young women graduates of Sydney University, was the judges' first choice …

Author: M. Barnard Eldershaw Publisher: Harrap Published year: 1929

Enter the feudal world of the Otori – filled with magic, treachery and intrigue – inspired by …

Year: Secondary Author: Lian Hearn Publisher: Hachette Australia Published year: 2016

In the first century A. D. Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverant poet of imperial …

Author: David Malouf Publisher: Random House Australia Published year: 1978

Outside, the rain continues unceasing; silver sheets sluicing down, the trees and shrubs soaking and…

Author: Georgia Blain Publisher: Scribe Published year: 2016

Black Rock White City is a novel about the damages of war, the limits of choice, and the hope of …

Author: A. S. Patrić Publisher: Transit Lounge Published year: 2015

Blueback is an achingly beautiful story about family, belonging, and living a life in tune with the …

Year: Secondary, Year 7 Author: Tim Winton Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia Published year: 1997

Teacher Resource

In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnusdottir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal …

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Hannah Kent Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia Published year: 2014

Teacher Resource

"In Acland Street, St Kilda, there stands a cafe called Scheherazade." Thus begins Arnold Zable’s …

Year: Secondary, Year 11 Author: Arnold Zable Publisher: Text Publishing Published year: 2001

Teacher Resource Essay

Spanning three generations, Capricornia tells the story of Australia's north. It is a story of …

Author: Xavier Herbert Publisher: Angus & Robertson Published year: 1938

Carpentaria is an epic of the Gulf country of north-western Queensland. Its portrait of life in the…

Year: Secondary, Year 12 Author: Alexis Wright Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Published year: 2006

Essay